AMARANTHACEAE 137 
widely distributed in the Philippines at low altitudes in the 
settled areas, 
Illustrative specimen from Pasay, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
March, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 445). 
-CELOSIA Linnaeus 
CELOSIA ARGENTEA Linn.; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 192; ed. 2 (1845) 
185; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 243. 
The Linnean species was correctly interpreted by Blanco. An 
introduced species now widely distributed in the settled areas of 
the’ Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Los Bafios, Laguna Pudvince, 
Luzon, May, 1914, comm. N. Catalan (Merrill: Species Blanco- 
anae No. 22). 
CELOSIA CRISTATA Linn.; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 191=Celosia coccinea 
Linn.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 134; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 241, t. 64. 
The form described is the ordinary cock’s comb, Celosia cris- 
tata Linn. It is rather commonly cultivated in the Philippines 
for ornamental purposes, but is not spontaneous, at least in the 
fasciated form. It is suspected that Celosia cristata Linn. is 
nothing but a fasciated form of C. argentea Linn. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas, Batangas Province,. 
Luzon, October 20, 1916, there known as palong manoc (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 1036). 
AMARANTHUS Linnaeus 
AMARANTHUS SPINOSUS Linn; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 710; ed, 2 
(1845) 491; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 113. 
The Linnean species was correctly interpreted by Blanco. It 
is very common and widely distributed in the Philippines at low 
altitudes in the settled areas; abundant also along gravel bars 
in the beds of streams and along the shores of rivers. It is cer- 
tainly an introduced plant in the Philippines. 
Illustrative. specimen from Manila, Luzon, October, 1913 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 282). 
Amaranthus mangostanus Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 711; ed. 2 (1845) 492; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 114, t. 289 (as A. cruentus), non Linn. =AMARAN- 
THUS GANGETICUS Linn. 
This was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Amaranthus melan- 
cholicus Linn., which is supposed to be a synonym of A. gange- 
ticus Linn. Blanco’s description agrees with the characters of 
Amaranthus gangeticus Linn. 
